Wednesday Writings: Chapter Three

This July we are delighted to share Chapter Three of Wednesday Writings, one of Holt/Smithson Foundation's digital programs. 

During Chapter Three we will focus on writings by Robert Smithson. Every Wednesday in July we will be publishing a text by Smithson to his collection of writings on our website.

Smithson's writings provide an unparalleled vantage into the concepts, influences, and ways of thinking that guided his work. Smithson wrote extensively and published his writings in exhibition catalogs and publications such as ArtforumHarper's Bazaar, Studio InternationalArts Magazine, and Avalanche.

⁠Wednesday Writings Chapter Three

Week One
Robert Smithson, A Museum of Language in the Vicinity of Art (1968)

Week Two
Robert Smithson, A Cinematic Atopia (1971)

Week Three
Robert Smithson, Cultural Confinement (1972)

Week Four
Robert Smithson, Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape  (1973)
 

Keep up to date with additional content for the program on our Instagram and Threads.

Check out our previous chapters of Wednesday Writings:

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Robert Smithson, 400 Seattle Horizons [destroyed] (1969)
Installation view: "557,087" curated by Lucy R. Lippard, Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum, September 5—October 5, 1969
Instamatic snapshots
3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (9.5 x 9.5 cm) each

Archived News

Thursday Thoughts: Series One

In May of 2025 we shared our first series of Thursday Thoughts—a weekly series publishing interviews with Robert Smithson or Nancy Holt to our website. Interviews with Holt and Smithson provide a distinct vantage into their artistic process and the evolution of their thoughts throughout time.